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SUMMARY:Forging a Community: The EU's House of European History - Taja Vov
 k van Gaal (EU\, Brussels) &amp\; Prof Wolfram Kaiser (Portsmouth)
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CONTACT:Dr Bernhard Fulda
DESCRIPTION:At a time when Europeans are at loggerheads with each other ab
 out the best way out of the current state debt crisis\, the plan to open a
  ‘House of European History’ in Brussels in 2014\, intended to promote
  an awareness of European identity\, is causing heated debate. Predictably
 \, the project has attracted the ire of Euro-sceptics in this country: the
  Daily Mail described it as an ‘offensive waste of money’\, and railed
  about the alleged denomination of WWII as ‘the European Civil War’. B
 ut there are sceptics elsewhere\, not least in Eastern Europe\, who worry 
 that their specific historical experience is going to be erased in the att
 empt to find a politically-correct single unifying narrative for the histo
 ries of the 27 separate member states. We have invited the Director and Cu
 rator of the EU’s project\, the historian Taja Vovk van Gaal (Brussels)\
 , to present the current plans for the exhibition concept. The second pane
 llist\, Prof Wolfram Kaiser (Portsmouth)\, who is currently working on a b
 ig research project analysing how ‘Europe’ has been exhibited over the
  last decades\, will provide a critical commentary.\nA stimulating debate\
 , and free wine & lemonade: everyone warmly welcome!\nFor more information
 \, please contact Dr Bernhard Fulda\, bdf20@cam.ac.uk.
LOCATION:Knox Shaw Room\, Sidney Sussex College
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